Budding Bioethicist Wins Gates Fellowship
Senior Alix Rogers wins Gates Fellowship.
Penn Hikes Tuition—and the Grants to Cover It
Grant program extended; tuition and fees rise 4.9 percent.
Fighting the Religion of Cost Effectiveness
AIDS fighter Paul Farmer on the “cost-effectiveness” fallacy.
Penn Settles Student Loan Case
Penn settles for $1.6 million in New York student-loan investigation
Research in Brief
Blood Pressure by the Clock; Single-Parent Stem Cells; Why We Sniff.
GSE Names New Dean
Vanderbilt’s Andrew Porter named GSE dean.
A Writer by Any Other Gender
Feminist Toril Moi on not being a “woman writer.”
Marketing Professor Pleads Guilty
Ward pleads guilty to child pornography charges.
Baker to Speak at Commencement
James Baker to speak at Commencement.
The Best Inventions That Don’t Exist
Innovation for the rest of us: “2nd Best Idea Slam.”
And the Winning Prototype Is …
Parachuting robot snares annual PennVention prize.
Barbaro’s Race Ends
Barbaro’s last days
Nobel-Winner MacDiarmid Dies
Nobel-prize chemist Alan MacDiarmid dies at 79
Martin Luther King Day 2007
Campus honors MLK’s legacy
Exit Alig
Alig resigns as alumni-relations AVP
Research Briefs
Attacking HIV with a (Modified) V; Found in Translation: Cholesterol-Cutting Drug; Bending DNA No Problem at Nano-Scale
Bringing Penn’s Treasures Back Home
Display highlights Penn treasures—and collector who found them.
Economics Professor on Trial
Economics professor charged with murder
The Logic of Torture
Heard on campus: Peter Singer on torture
Smokeless Smoke’s?
Smokeless Joe’s
Unlearning to Talk: Q&A with Charles Yang
How children learn language; or, why wuckoo?
Civic Scholars: A “Galvanizing” Program
New four-year program combines service and scholarship
Where’s That Other Eakins Clinic Again?
Whatever happened to Penn’s Eakins masterpiece?
On the Road Again
Kelly Writers House celebrates Kerouac classic